International politics: a framework for analysis

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Page 258Aid programs benefit simultaneously the donors and the recipients: recipients
receive money, loans, materials, and knowledge from which they hope to fashion
a modern economy, political stability, or military security; the donors, regardless ...

Page 259Of the bilateral programs, only the major powers are able to use foreign aid as an
effective instrument of policy to support their diplomacy, and even these do not
dispense aid in large quantities to all underdeveloped countries. Sweden, Italy ...

Page 263When donors manipulate aid programs for immediate political advantages,
economic and humanitarian criteria, though still relevant, give way to political ... It
may be difficult, finally, to speculate on all the consequences of an aid program ...